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WE HAVE A BLOG NOW

Want to learn more about our journey and the inner workings of our minds? Yes, we thought so.

SHOW ME YOUR WARES

Flush with our knowledge that you have to tell people about your product for them to know about it (you can have that nugget of wisdom free of charge) we decided to go to the people...

TIME IS A PRECIOUS THING

REX has taken an embarassing amount of time to finish. What was supposed to be a weekend project has become a full-blown service which is both super exciting but also super scary...

WHEN YOUR SCOPE IS A CREEP

Fixed milestones and experimental development are not good bedfellows...

IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

We completely missed branding and marketing out of our first plan for REX, and really underestimated how important branding is and how difficult it is to get right. We assumed that people would be so giddy at the idea of an Android scanner that they would offer all kinds of inappropriate things for the promise of a free licence. Oh how wrong we were...

THE HEROES IN ORANGE HATS

We were 99% sure everyone would love REX and find no fault with the tool, but to err on the side of caution we thought we had best get some people to confirm what we already knew – that he was perfect (strangely this isn’t what happened)...

THREE KIDS IN A TRENCH COAT

The REX team is basically three kids in a trench coat, except there’s five of us and we all wear hoodies. One of our strengths however is project management, and we knew the only way to get from egg to full on dinosaur was to follow a plan.

TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

I love this phrase. It's just the perfect amount of cringe but also really true. It's also incredibly difficult when you're a startup when every mistake could put the company at risk.

ALL IT TAKES TO BE SUCCESSFUL IS A LITTLE APPLICATION

When covid hit and there was a massive dip in consultancy we were faced with either furloughing staff, which we didn’t want to do, or finding a new income stream. We were directed to the Innovate UK grants by a friend and emboldened by panic embarked on our fist Innovate UK grant application. Find out more about what we learned…

Rex is to be released into the wild

Well, the day is finally coming. Our lovely REX is being released into the wild where he belongs, and where everyone can enjoy him. Find out more about our journey to release here...